The Russians will not stop now. They know they have their opponent on the ropes.

[UCmeNdc]

The Russians will use their ability to hack US computers to build a massive offensive propaganda operation. The Russians know the GOP will never fully investigate how they got into US computer systems and how they flipped this election toward a GOP win.
The Russians will continue this offensive disinformation campaign against the United States until the average American will not trust the system at all. The GOP must be willing to look at this problem objectively and punish all involved as a future deterrent.

That includes Donald trump and Roger Stone!

[KittyWampus]

1. Putin and Russia have effectively relegated the USA to 3rd world status... with nukes we can't use.

The Soviet Union is reforming. NATO is gone and China is looking GOOD!

The USA exists as a base for Exxon and Trump and the other billionaires to extract money from the tax payers who will have infrastructure rotting, no safety net and possibly a recession sooner rather than later.

[triron]

15. A banana republic

[UCmeNdc]

2. I remember telling DUers before the election about not putting their heads in the sand over Comey's

deeds. Boy did I get attacked for being a downer and nay sayer.

I am saying it here first. If the United States does not fully investigate exactly how the Russians flipped this election, that includes investigating what Donald Trump knows, then the US is lost.

The CIA & FBI have to get Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Manafort, etc. under oath and have them answer questions to fill in the blanks about Russian connections. Period!!!

[Dawson Leery]

10. +1,000,000

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

3. they're still attacking us. paid Russian trolls are everywhere

We need to petition Facebook to use (more) IP/VNS crosschecks.

I've gotten my discussion accounts removed 4 different times yet the Russians get a pass.

[UCmeNdc]

6. They are also very sophisticated

Some of the videos being produced are outstanding quality. You would swear that they were done by a major news organization.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. of course - why should they stop - nothing tangible or effective has changed. yet.

[Persondem]

5. Oh, but we will no longer be Russia's opposition. We are about to be friends

Don't cha know.

... and we have always been at war with East Asia.

[Adrahil]

7. I'm afraid you are right. Expect.....

a concerted campaign for Russia to exert influence over the former Soviet states. Expect at least one seizure of of a former possession, and probably expansion of their area of control in Ukraine to include an attempt to secure a land route to Crimea.

[Dawson Leery]

8. Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia/Georgia/Ukraine are in real danger here.

Poland may be in trouble too.

[duffyduff]

13. Putin is a Hitler or a Stalin.

You would think this guy would have talked to Gorbachev as to why he decided to allow the USSR to break up and eastern Europe to stop being Soviet satellites. The reason is simple: the USSR simply couldn't afford to have an empire.

Russia ain't any richer now.

[TheFrenchRazor]

9. they haven't even started yet. nt

[Rex]

11. Plutocracies are easy to destroy, because there is no loyalty among wealthy war criminals.

Also, pragmatism doesn't work against shadow theory. Loses every single time.

[duffyduff]

12. The GOP is going to own this.

It's gonna be a mess, but have the popcorn handy.

The Dems are silent for a reason.

[Dawson Leery]

14. The GOP needs to disappear.

Evan McMullin appears serious about rebuilding the center right in modern form.